Is there evidence for reincarnation?

[openmind77]

Hey openmind,

I believe in post #60 you stated: “Karma… does not have a will, it just operates to balance all your past good and bad deeds with appropriate consequences in the future.”

Above you state: “There is no judgment of whether hurting somebody is good or bad”

Those statements seem contradictory to me: Karma balances our “good and bad” deeds even though there is not judgment of something (like hurting someone) as being “good or bad”.

So I guess my question is do you think things we do are good or bad? If no, why? If yes, what is the standard we can use to determine what is good and what is bad?

Thanks.

Like I said there is no judgment by Karma whether the deed is good or bad. The consequence is equivalent to what the original deed was.

Bad results will follow bad deeds, good results will follow good deeds. I guess, if you like whatever happens to you in return, the original deed must have been good?

We humans (or the Gods) can make a moral judgment of whether the deed was good or not, but the Law of Karma does not - it just matches future circumstances/consequences to past actions.

For instance, denying a same-sex couple a license to marry, may seem like a good deed to some (but not to others). But if you do that today, maybe in your next life, your parents may not allow you to marry someone you want to. The consequences match the original action, but who is to say whether the action is good or bad?

 

[JohnGerard]

Like I said there is no judgment by Karma whether the deed is good or bad. The consequence is equivalent to what the original deed was.

Bad results will follow bad deeds, good results will follow good deeds. I guess, if you like whatever happens to you in return, the original deed must have been good?

We humans (or the Gods) can make a moral judgment of whether the deed was good or not, but the Law of Karma does not - it just matches future circumstances/consequences to past actions.

For instance, denying a same-sex couple a license to marry, may seem like a good deed to some (but not to others). But if you do that today, maybe in your next life, your parents may not allow you to marry someone you want to. The consequences match the original action, but who is to say whether the action is good or bad?

Hey openmind,

Truly no offense, and I know you have said we are free to believe whatever we wish…we agree on that.

Thanks for all of your responses …but I’m gonna have to put the idea of karma into the category of things that are just not real.

God bless.